TripAdvisor Reviews Dallal House Hotel Aleppo

Travel Blogs from Aleppo

... to a town called Bosra (not Iraq) where a Roman Castle awaited us. Its amazing how blasť you can get because we didn’t even go in. It was just like an I-Spy tick box. We both agreed that this was the last time we go ...

A wander around with Simon, Ozzie guy from the hostel who gave me some good tips on photography. Hopefully you will see the benefits and increase in "creative" photos as time progresses. Here's one now!

A brief trip to the Great Mosque, built around 8AD and with sections restored in 1169AD following a fire. A ...

... Aleppo is one of those cities with a special Middle Eastern charm of being both ancient and modern at the same time. Many empires from the Byzantines to the Ottomans have left their architectural legacy in the city. It's souq, with it's many winding alleys was one of the best I've been to.

Aleppo is very close to many of Syria's best sites as well. While here I was able to take minibuses ...

... we figure, because all the other tourists had left, and we were the last pickings of the day. Pretty obviously what they were selling, including the little bottle that we bought, were manufactured in some little back alley in the village the day before. It was so annoying, we could not enjoy what could have been a beautiful walk through the peaceful colonnades, and retreated to the van. We are going to try again in the morning…hopefully these guys sleep ...